If your daughter {or you} is a fan of the Little House on the Prairie book series, you should probably make a green pumpkin pie this fall. I absolutely LOVED the Little House on the Prairie when I was younger and so did my daughter.
The first recipe is from the Little House cookbook. The second is my own recipe. I chose to treat the pumpkin just as I would apples and simply followed my favorite apple pie recipe instead {I did add a wee bit more sugar than I normally do as well}.
The thought of apple cider vinegar and a whole cup of brown sugar in my pie did not appeal to me. Buy hey, if you are brave enough to try the original recipe, let me know how it turned out.
Who knew you could turn a green pumpkin into something so delicious?
Recipe – The Long Winter Green Pumpkin Apple Pie
Ingredients
{1} 4 lb green {unripe} pumpkin to yield about 5 cups
5 cups peeled, sliced pumpkin {slice them to look like apple slices}
1 cup sugar
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp. cream of tartar
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
3 tbsp. flour
3 tbsp. butter, divided into 6 pieces
1 double pie crust {ready-made or homemade}
1 egg {for egg wash}
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Peel the green pumpkin, cut it in half and the quarters.
- Cut pumpkin quarters in to pieces that resemble apple slices to measure 5 cups and place in a large bowl.
- To the bowl add sugar, cinnamon, cram of tartar, nutmeg, flour and butter and toss.
- Pour pumpkin mixture into a prepared pie crust, add the top crust, crimp edges, and brush with egg wash.
- Bake at 45-50 minutes or until the pie crust is golden brown. Cool and serve with a big ole’ fat scoop of ice cream.
Have you ever tried Zucchini {Apple} Pie before? Here is the recipe.
Enjoy!
The Little House Cookbook: Frontier Foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Classic Stories
Desi says
So was this yummy or no? Figured I would post this hear also since this is a desert.
preparedpantry.com/Recipes/How-to-make-Zucchini-Sticky-Toffee-Pudding.htm
Basically zucchini cake with toffee pudding on top.
Julie A. says
How did it taste?
Jane says
I love that you did this! Those were my favorite books 🙂
Helen in Meridian says
We used to make vinegar taffy, which tastes great, especially warm while pulling at a taffy pull. So, I bet the vinegar recipe is great with the pumpkin, adding the tang that comes from apples. Maybe they served this at Nellie’s Cafe, baked by Ma Ingalls, not Nellie.
Wendy Phelps says
Have cooked a lot of sweet and savoury with pumpkin and zucchini but never a sweet pie, it looks good. As, Helen in Meridan says we have also made vinegar taffy, my mum always made pulled toffee as we call it. Would love to know how the pie tasted. Night Jon Boy
Elizabeth F says
I would think you would need the cider vinegar (or lemon juice) to give the tartness the apples would normally have. The recipe I have for zucchini mock apple pie has lemon juice.
The books are fun. LITTLE HOUSE IN THE BIG WOODS takes place not that far from here in WI. There are some additional series that have been written , sanctioned by the family, of other family members. There are the Rose books about her daughter, the Caroline Books about her mother and the Martha books about her grandmother.
Amy says
Where does one find a green pumpkin? My children and I all loved the little house on the prairie books and literally just read the part where ma makes this pie. Would love to try making one myself!
Mavis Butterfield says
Well, if you don’t grow pumpkins, I’m sure you could stop by any farm in August and ask to buy a green pumpkin. They might look at you a little weird, but hey, green pumpkin.
Margot says
Green pumpkin just means that it’s not ripe. So you’d either need to grow it yourself or find someone who grows pumpkins and ask to pick an early one. Good luck!
Beth says
I cooked the Little House green pumpkin pie last year. It was delicious. Just like in the book, my husband thought it was apple pie. I look forward to trying the modified recipe this year.
Stacy says
I love the “Little House” book and TV series. I’ve read the books sooo many times. I have the series on DVD, too. I have binge watched very episode multiple times.
I also want to try the mock apple pie.
I just need to find a farmer that will let me buy a green one because I’ve never seen any green pumpkins in grocery stores. Just the ripe orange ones.
Bonnie says
Went to our farmer’s market two days after Halloween to purchase pumpkins to bake for Thanksgiving pies. Cut the first one (of 5) yesterday, and found the inside half orange and half lime green! Like a hollow watermelon with a thick lime green rind. Researching online, found that most unripe pumpkins are the ones that didn’t have time to ripen before frost. Which would happen a lot in the locale of the Little House on Prairie with their shorter growing season! Perhaps the way to go for green pumpkins is to give your contact info to a farmers market grower and ask them if they could bring you a green pumpkin the following week.
I wish I had seen this recipe before I roasted it anyway! The green is now a yellowish green. Doesn’t smell that different and is edible, I checked. Underripe means less sweet. Hmmmm. Think I’ll mix these ingredients up and try to make something like applesauce pudding…